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ART in the Attic 2020 Announces VIP Ticket Prices and Time Slots WE now have 3 different time slots to help minimize the crowd and to practice social distancing. Please select the time that your prefer. Masks are required. We have a supply in case you need one. Guest will be required to wear a face masks and gloves will be provided. If an item is touched, but not purchased, we ask guests to place the item on a table to be sanitized. Don’t miss this first look, first buy VIP reception! You won’t believe the art we’ve collected. Start or expand your art collection with some great finds!!! New this year: A Pop-Up Artists’ Market! Visit our courtyard and meet some MCA artist members who will have their old art pieces for sale at great prices! To help ensure social distancing and other best practices we have established 3 ticket times to keep the attendance to 30 at each hour. Choose from 4-5, 5-6, 6-7 pm. $20 for MCA Members $25 for Non Members Click Here to Purchase Tick…

Held at on our Outdoor Stage Join us for a theatrical concert featuring some of OCT’s best-known performers! This 90-minute concert with no intermission will be held on our brand-n ew outdoor stage behind the theatre. Seating is limited and safely distanced at small tables (up to groups of four) on the patio around the stage. There will be outdoor concessions. Featuring old and new favorites from "All Shook Up," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Big Fish," "Cinderella," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Guys and Dolls," "Into the Woods," "Mean Girls," "On the Town," "Seussical," "Songs for a New World," "The Sound of Music," "Sweet Charity," "You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown," and more! Dates: Thursday, July 23 Friday, July 24 Saturday, July 25 Thursday, July 30 Friday, July 31 Saturday, August 1 Location: Ocala Civic Theatre Time: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM On Sale: June 30  |  Tickets: $20 each Reservations available by phone or online only PLEASE NOTE Physical tickets will not be printed. You wi…

Held at on our Outdoor Stage Join us for a theatrical concert featuring some of OCT’s best-known performers! This 90-minute concert with no intermission will be held on our brand-n ew outdoor stage behind the theatre. Seating is limited and safely distanced at small tables (up to groups of four) on the patio around the stage. There will be outdoor concessions. Featuring old and new favorites from "All Shook Up," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Big Fish," "Cinderella," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Guys and Dolls," "Into the Woods," "Mean Girls," "On the Town," "Seussical," "Songs for a New World," "The Sound of Music," "Sweet Charity," "You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown," and more! Dates: Thursday, July 23 Friday, July 24 Saturday, July 25 Thursday, July 30 Friday, July 31 Saturday, August 1 Location: Ocala Civic Theatre Time: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM On Sale: June 30  |  Tickets: $20 each Reservations available by phone or online only PLEASE NOTE Physical tickets will not be printed. You wi…

ART in the Attic 2020 Announces VIP Ticket Prices and Time Slots WE now have 3 different time slots to help minimize the crowd and to practice social distancing. Please select the time that your prefer. Masks are required. We have a supply in case you need one. Guest will be required to wear a face masks and gloves will be provided. If an item is touched, but not purchased, we ask guests to place the item on a table to be sanitized. Don’t miss this first look, first buy VIP reception! You won’t believe the art we’ve collected. Start or expand your art collection with some great finds!!! New this year: A Pop-Up Artists’ Market! Visit our courtyard and meet some MCA artist members who will have their old art pieces for sale at great prices! To help ensure social distancing and other best practices we have established 3 ticket times to keep the attendance to 30 at each hour. Choose from 4-5, 5-6, 6-7 pm. $20 for MCA Members $25 for Non Members Click Here to Purchase Tick…

Held at on our Outdoor Stage Join us for a theatrical concert featuring some of OCT’s best-known performers! This 90-minute concert with no intermission will be held on our brand-n ew outdoor stage behind the theatre. Seating is limited and safely distanced at small tables (up to groups of four) on the patio around the stage. There will be outdoor concessions. Featuring old and new favorites from "All Shook Up," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Big Fish," "Cinderella," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Guys and Dolls," "Into the Woods," "Mean Girls," "On the Town," "Seussical," "Songs for a New World," "The Sound of Music," "Sweet Charity," "You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown," and more! Dates: Thursday, July 23 Friday, July 24 Saturday, July 25 Thursday, July 30 Friday, July 31 Saturday, August 1 Location: Ocala Civic Theatre Time: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM On Sale: June 30  |  Tickets: $20 each Reservations available by phone or online only PLEASE NOTE Physical tickets will not be printed. You wi…

ART in the Attic 2020 Announces VIP Ticket Prices and Time Slots WE now have 3 different time slots to help minimize the crowd and to practice social distancing. Please select the time that your prefer. Masks are required. We have a supply in case you need one. Guest will be required to wear a face masks and gloves will be provided. If an item is touched, but not purchased, we ask guests to place the item on a table to be sanitized. Don’t miss this first look, first buy VIP reception! You won’t believe the art we’ve collected. Start or expand your art collection with some great finds!!! New this year: A Pop-Up Artists’ Market! Visit our courtyard and meet some MCA artist members who will have their old art pieces for sale at great prices! To help ensure social distancing and other best practices we have established 3 ticket times to keep the attendance to 30 at each hour. Choose from 4-5, 5-6, 6-7 pm. $20 for MCA Members $25 for Non Members Click Here to Purchase Tick…

The Discovery Center's newest exhibit, Astronaut Academy will be on display Oct. 3, 2020 through Jan. 2, 2021 at the Discovery Center, 701 NE Sanchez Ave. A special grand opening event will be held Saturday, Oct. 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature individual hands-on experiments in the STEAM Saturday program. Astronaut Academy is a hands-on exhibit with activities that introduce kids to space travel and experiments. Visitors will navigate their way through a space station module, control a remote Mars rover, build and launch their own rockets, view an authentic moon rock (courtesy of NASA) and more. Discovery Center partnered with National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE), NASA, and Lockheed Martin to showcase the ideas, engineering and even the art that goes into the study and exploration of space. The exhibit is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Updated sessions will be posted on the Discovery Center website. General admission to the Discovery…

The Marion County Children's Alliance is excited to be a part of the first Ocala/Marion's day of giving hosted by the Community Foundation of Ocala/Marion.  This special giving day is an opportunity to unite our community around causes in which we truly believe and help nonprofit organizations connect to the larger community. The Children's Alliance needs your help! Please join our campaign and help us reach our goal of $10,000! We need you to tell your friends and family members about the important work we do and ask them to join us in helping to make a difference. Get ready to give! On October 20, starting at October 20, 2020 10 AM, visit https://www.give4marion.org and make a donation to us and/or to any of the great participating nonprofit organizations in Ocala/Marion. You will have 24 hours to make your donation, and all giving will end at October 21, 2020 10 AM.

The opening for Megan Welch's, Hinterlands, will begin Monday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m. at City Hall, 110 SE Watula Ave. Due to ongoing Covid-19 health and safety concerns, there will be no opening reception. This art exhibit will be on display October 19, 2020 through January 8, 2021, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. This exhibit is free and open to the public. Megan Welch is a portrait painter and educator residing in Northeast Florida. Welch recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art & Design with an MFA in Painting. She is also a graduate of the University of North Florida, receiving her BFA in Fine Art with a concentration on painting and drawing. Welch has been represented in the World of Wonder Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Holly Blanton Art Studio & Gallery in Atlantic Beach, FL. Most recently, she exhibited her MFA Thesis: Stay Where I Can See You, at Holly Blanton Art Studio & Gallery in Atlantic Beach, FL, and was featured in the latest …

The City of Ocala is providing residents with free tire disposal Saturday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Disposal locations will be at the corner of NE 14th Street and NE Eighth Avenue and the Hampton Aquatic Fun Center located at 255 NW Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Tires generated by businesses will not be accepted and there is a limit of 10 tires per resident. This service is for residents living within the city limits. A driver's license listing a city address may be requested.

For more information, please contact the City of Ocala Residential Sanitation Division at 352-351-6697.